Sentences with phrase «urbanized landscapes»

To adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years ago.

Grand Theft Auto has you exploring Liberty City, an urbanized landscape filled with wide streets and buildings, unpredictable weather and pedestrians, as well as a multitude of vehicles such as sports cars, tanks and taxi cabs that you can... «borrow.»

He described how, in the Southwest particularly, the geography and urbanizing landscape contribute substantially to the extent of heat events:

Not exact matches

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

«The selection of stormwater treatment measures suitable for highly urbanized streets is restricted by the limited available space combined with the need for functional and aesthetically pleasing landscapes,» she says.

But with cities, almost all you see are industrial wastelands and urbanized jungles waiting to leech the beauty out of any landscape.

Biosphäre Bliesgau, Germany, is applying the concept of the «in - between - city» approach to link two very contrasting landscapes, densely populated and urbanized in the north in the town of St Ingbert, and sparsely populated and rural in the south.